Ecogothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century: Phantoms, Fantasy and Uncanny Flowers

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Sue Edney

Ecogothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century

Phantoms, Fantasy and Uncanny Flowers

Sue Edney

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Manchester University Press
28 May 2024

Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Gardens (descriptions, history etc)

EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century provides fresh approaches to contemporary ecocritical and environmental debates, providing new, compelling insights into material relationships between vegetal and human beings. Through twelve exciting essays, the collection demonstrates how unseen but vital relationships among plants and their life systems can reflect and inform human behaviours and actions. In these entertaining essays, human and vegetal agency is interpreted through ecocritical and ecoGothic investigation of uncanny manifestations in gardens — hauntings, psychic encounters, monstrous hybrids, fairies and ghosts — with plants, greenhouses, granges, mansions, lakes, lawns, flowerbeds and trees as agents and sites of uncanny developments. The collection represents the forefront of ecoGothic critical debate and will be welcomed by specialists in environmental humanities at every level, as a timely, innovative inclusion in ecoGothic studies.

Edited by: Sue Edney
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781526178992
ISBN 10: 1526178990
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 28 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Sue Edney is a Lecturer in English Literature and Environmental Writing at the University of Bristol -- .

Reviews for Ecogothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century: Phantoms, Fantasy and Uncanny Flowers

'Ferns often represent ‘fascination’, and this is a great way to define my feelings about EcoGothic Gardens: there is much to fascinate in this collection.' Jemma Stewart, The Dark Arts Journal 'EcoGothic Gardens convincingly demonstrates that horticultural space was anything but neutral in the nineteenth century [...] This book adds to a growing body of scholarship on Gothic ecologies and is essential reading for anyone working on Victorian horticulture.' Lindsay Wells, Victorian Studies -- .